The buccellato, also known as cuccidato, is a large pastry wreath filled with a fragrant spiced fig, raisin, and nut filling. Really, it is just a huge cookie as opposed to its smaller version of fig cookies known respectively as buccellati or cuccidati. It’s a big tradition in Sicily to …
This is a different twist of the classic Sicilian cassata cake. Cassata is a ricotta filled sponge cake that is typically wrapped in marzipan and has an icing glaze. I usually skip the marzipan because it’s way too sweet for my liking. This festive buche de Noel (aka Swiss roll) …
While grocery shopping the other day I was fortunate to come across some cardoons (carduna in the Sicilian dialect, cardi or cardone in Italian), which is a rare occurrence since there isn’t a significant Italian population where I live. The cardoon is a valued vegetable not only to the Italians …
These roasted peppers rolls make a stunning presentation for a holiday appetizer or as a side dish. You can use roasted peppers in a jar that come from the supermarket to make these pepper rolls. However, jarred roasted peppers have a slightly bitter aftertaste which comes from the citric acid …
Making a stuffed turkey breast roll is a good way of celebrating the holidays without having to make a whole turkey and the eating leftovers for a week. Some of us can only handle eating turkey for two days max. Constructing a turkey breast roll is not as difficult as …
Our friends, who are on a ketogenetic diet, were the inspiration for this recipe. Plus, the fact that I had some gorgeous pumpkins sitting on my front steps that were just too good to throw out. Those friends of ours – it can be a challenge coming up with a …
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